Antislipping attachment for horseshoes.



PATENTED AUG. 20, 1907.

A. A. HILL. ANTISLIPPING ATTACHMENT FOR HORSESHOBS.

APPLICATION TILED DEO.1,1906.

-1NVNTOR. Arthur A. Hill.

ATTORNEYS.

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ARTHUR A. HILL, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ANTISLIPPING ATTACHMENT FOR HORSESHOES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 20, 1907.

Application filed December 1, 1906. Serial No. 345,911.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I ARTHUR A. HILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Antislipping Attachments for Horseshoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to horseshoes, the same residing particularly in an antislipping attachment therefor.

The object of the invention is to provide an antislipping attachment for horseshoes of such construction that it may be readily applied to and removed from an ordinary horseshoe, and be firmly secured thereto so that there is no danger of its accidental separation or detachment from the shoe.

The invention will be more fully hereinafter described and the novel features of the same will be defined in the claims.

In the drawings: Figure 1 is a bottom plan view of the device; Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same; Fig. 3 is an edge view of the device shown applied to a horse shoe, and Fig. 4 is a sectional view of the device applied, the section being taken on the line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

My improved attachment is in the form of a plate 1 of a shapecorresponding to that of the horseshoe 2 to which it is to be applied. The lower surface of the plate 1 is corrugated, grooved, or otherwise roughened for the purpose of preventing slipping on the ice, and has an upwardly extending lug 4 at the toe portion thereof. The said lug has the inner surface 5 thereof slightly inclined so that it lies at an acute angle to the plane of the upper surface of the plate. Similar lugs 6, 6, are formed on the two branches of the heel portion of the plate, the said lugs having their inner walls 7 also lying at an acute angle to the plane of the upper surface of the plate 1, the inclined surfaces 5 and 7 of the lugs 4 and 6, respectively, forming guideways, as will hereinafter appear.

On one side of the plate 1, preferably at points adjacent to the toe and heel portions thereof, are upwardly extending ears or projections 8. Ears or projections 9 are also formed in similar positions on the opposite side of the plate 1, but the ears or projections 9 normally extend outwardly from said plate and in a plane substantially coincident with the upper surface thereof.

The horseshoe 2 to which my improved attachment is to be applied does not differ in any essential respect from an ordinary horseshoe, except that its lower sur face is flat throughout and that it is formed with an inclined wall or edge 10 at the toe and with inclined or beveled surfaces 11 at the heel, the angle of the surfaces 10 and 11 corresponding with the angle of the surfaces 5 and 7 on the lugs 4 and 6.

In applying my improved device the same is placed against the bottom of the shoe 2 and moved laterally so that the lugs 4 and 6 will register with the inclined surfaces 10 and 11 on the shoe. At such time the ears or projections 8 will bear against the side edge of the shoe. The ears or projections 9 are then turned upwardly into a position corresponding to that of the ears 8 and the plate 1 is locked in position on the shoe. Lateral movement thereof is prevented by the engagement of the ears 8 and 9 with the sides of the shoe 2; forward and rear ward movement is prevented by the engagement of the lugs at and 6 with the toe and heel of the shoe, and downward movement thereof is prevented by the engagement of the inclined surfaces 5 and 7 of the lugs 4 and 6 with the correspondingly inclined surfaces 10 and 11 on the shoe. When it is desired to remove the same, it is merely necessary to move one set of the cars or projections 8, 9, downwardly and slip the plate off by a lateral movement corresponding to that by which it was first applied.

From the foregoing description it will be seen that the attachment may be readily applied to and removed from any shoe; that when it is applied it is firmly and securely held in place without danger of accidental detachment, and that, by reason of the roughened or corrugated lower surfaces of said plate, it serves the function, to a much better degree, of the calks which are now commonly employed upon horseshoes for preventing slipping on icy pavements.

Having described my invention, I claim:-

1. A plate for attachment to the under side of a horse shoe having lugs at the heel and toe thereof for engage ment with corresponding portions of the shoe, the lugs at the heel being fixed and having ears or projections at the sides thereof for engagement with the sides of the shoe, one set of said ears being bendable.

2. A plate for attachment to the under side of a horse shoe having upwardly extending lugs thereon whose inner surfaces are inclined, forming guideways for the reception of and engagement with corresponding portions of the shoe, and having ears or projections thereon for engagement with the shoe, one set of said ears being bendable.

The combination with a horseshoe having beveled heel and toe portions, of a plate for attachment thereto. the said plate having lugs at the heel and toe portions thereof provided with inclined inner surfaces for engagement with the beveled portions of the shoe, and means, independent of said lugs, for locking said plate against lateral movement on said shoe.

4. The combination with a horseshoe having beveled heel and toe portions, of a plate for attachment to said shoe. the said plate having lugs at the heel and toe thereof provided with inclined inner surfaces for engagement with the beveled portions of the shoe, and having ears or projcctions at the sides thereof for engagement with corresponding portions of the shoe, one set of said ears being bendable.

In witness whereof. I subscribe my signature, in the presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR A. HILL.

Witnesses WM. M. STocKnmnoE, WALDO M. CIIAIIN. 

